Live.com is a geolocation database that tracks Wi-Fi connections, both mobile and stationary. After complaints about the database being too public, Microsoft has limited access.

Optical drives were the future of technology, just a few years ago. Now they’re so inexpensive it’s hardly worth making them and the increase in web-delivery is pushing them further into obscurity.

Akitio announced the release of the Taurus Mini Super-S. The Taurus Mini Super-S has a 2.5-inch dual bay SATA enclosure with a built-in LCD display and two FW800 ports for daisy chaining.

A study by AptiQuant painted an unflattering picture of Internet Explorer and its users. Some of those users have taken exception to the report.

Microsoft seems to be committed to Bing despite the monetary losses. They even have plans for enhancing the search engine, to compete with Google, over the next several years.

Someone in Redmond is probably celebrating – after a decade, WinXP use has fallen – the aged operating system is running on fewer than half of the world’s computers.

AptiQuant ran some tests to measure the effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser. The results are not flattering for IE users.

ALDI stores in Australia discovered that some of the hard drives they sold contained components of the "Conficker" computer worm. To clean the drives, a full format is required.

WinPhone 7 didn’t make it in Japan due to lack of language support. So. WinPhone 7.5, Mango, has been released instead. This 3-minute video shows the phones in action.

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 is not currently up to date for OS X Lion. Sometime in the next few months Microsoft plans to release an update to include Lion-specific features.